My Secret Camera Frank Dabba Smith

Name: My Secret Camera By Frank Dabba Smith
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Summary

Mendel Grossman, imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto during World War II, secretly photographed people and events in the ghetto, leaving this record to inspire and educate.

My Secret Camera Summary

My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto by Frank Dabba Smith

Mendel Grossman, one of the many Jews imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II, was driven by a passion to bear witness to the human suffering that was going on around him. He secretly photographed people and events in the ghetto, leaving a historical record. In this photographic information book, the reader is taken on a journey with Grossman and his camera. The text emphasizes hope for the future, rather than the suffering of the past.

About Frank Dabba Smith

Frank Dabba Smith was born in California. He studied Linguistic Anthropology at Berkeley (BA Hons) and qualified as a teacher. He was ordained as a rabbi at Leo Baeck College, London, in 1994.

Mendel Grossman was born in Lodz in 1917. After the occupation of Poland by the German Army in September 1939, he joined the underground in the town. Forced to live in the Lodz ghetto he used his position in the statistics department to obtain the material needed to take photographs. By hiding his camera in his raincoat, Grossman was able to take secret photographs of scenes in the ghetto.

Grossman continued to take photographs after he was deported to the Konigs Wusterhausen labour camp. Mendel Grossman died while in the camp in 1945. After the war his hidden negatives were discovered and his work was published in the book, With a Camera in the Ghetto (1977).

Additional information

Sku

GOR001939441

ISBN 13

9780711214774

ISBN 10

0711214778

Title

My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto by Frank Dabba Smith

Author

Frank Dabba Smith

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Quarto Publishing PLC

Year published

20000301

Number of pages

Prizes

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us